Problem installing multisite

  • Good evening, community! Sorry to bother you. I tried to install wordpress multisite 4 times (on localhost, with Xampp), but it’s impossible. I followed the official documentation to the letter. WordPress confirms the creation of the network and makes me log in again. Then I created the new site, and I can see it in the sites list but in the top menu of the administration it doesn’t appear. If I try to visit it, I can see a white page with links but the css and everything else seems to be broken. And if I try to go to the dashboard of the new site, it shows me error 403. I don’t know what to do anymore. Any ideas? It’s strange, I did it several times in the past in this same way and I never had a problem. Thank you very much in advance!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by James Huff. Reason: moved to Networking WordPress since this is a Multisite issue
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  • If I try to visit it, I can see a white page with links but the css and everything else

    Can you post a screenshot?

    Also, I suggest you to try to set the WP_DEBUG constant to true in wp-config.php file to get any errors shown in your browser.

    Thread Starter dafaher

    (@dafaher)

    Hi @ a2hostingrj, first of all thank you very much for your answer. In my previous message I forgot to mention that I already have W_DEBUG enabled, but no log file is generated, which is strange. I’m using Xampp with PHP 7.4.18 and the latest version of WordPress.

    This is the problem website listed in Sites section:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oJ8AaMpPXMB_BEhKv1q-eKAn4UpUSK7n/view?usp=sharing

    But it doesn’t appear in the top menu of the dashboard:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LQbg2oFeyXpqnXkmoKq3HQZSdN2MieHD/view?usp=sharing

    And when I click in the visit option to go to the website, it’s broken:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yyfnt0lRvQE_0qqUh4KB9b5iG0fRP2Ty/view?usp=sharing

    The Chrome Developer Tool shows 20 entries with error 403 (forbidden), but all folders have the default permissions, so I feel pretty lost. I’m developing a project in local mode and I haven’t done anything yet, that is, there are no plugins or anything that can interfere with this site.

    Again, thank you very much for your answer and help. Best regards!

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by dafaher.

    The Chrome Developer Tool shows 20 entries with error 403 (forbidden)

    What are those entries? If it is a clean multisite, it might be a server configuration issue.

    Thread Starter dafaher

    (@dafaher)

    Two lines in the code that WordPress gave me to edit the wp-config.php file weren’t working for me, and I’d like to share the solution in case someone else is experiencing the same issue.

    The code recommended by WordPress to edit wp-config.php had this 2 lines:

    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) C:/xampp/htdocs/MYWEB/$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ C:/xampp/htdocs/MYWEB/$2 [L]

    Thanks to the Apache Friends forum now it works, they removed the path to make it look like this:

    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]

    Everything works perfect now. Thanks again for your feedback @a2hostingrj!

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by dafaher.
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